Advanced study of issues related to rehabilitation counseling, theory, research and practice including problem identification and assessment, program alternatives, service delivery modes, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, the translation of theory, and research into practice.

This course is a doctoral seminar designed to provide advanced knowledge and understanding of psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and disability (CID), including theoretical, practice, and research approaches to the processes of adaptation to CID, coping, self- management and health decision making, historical and sociological perspectives on disability and cultural and global perspectives, responses, and attitudes and disability, developmental and lifespan issues, and evidence-based practice and interventions in professional rehabilitation counseling practice, policy, and education.

Study of issues and topics affecting the preparation of Rehabilitation Counseling, Special Education, and Early Childhood personnel and of research issues involving persons with disabilities and educational and rehabilitation programs. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Lecture, two hours per week.

Education and Rehabilitation professional services including consultation, technical assistance, continuing education programs, professional organization development, committee and advisory board involvement, professional writing and editing, leadership training, and funding proposal development.

This course is intended to provide students with an overview of the clinical rehabilitation counseling and clinical mental health rehabilitation counseling issues, challenges and responses due to crises, disasters, and other trauma-causing events on persons with disabilities across the lifespan. Specific attention is given to major categories of disabilities, their limitations, and psychosocial responses to life-challenging and life-altering consequences of crisis and traumatic events.